Talk:Parker Morris Committee

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Would it be an etiquette violation to use this space to ask about more sources of information about the Parker Morris Committee and report? I would love to know more.

--JoyKnoblauch 03:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Me too. 80.0.102.40 (talk) 12:14, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Parker Morris standards and their sorry abandonment

Before reading this article I thought that the abandonment of Park Morris Standards sometime in the 1980s by the Thatcher government was responsible for the mushrooming of hundreds of thousands of horrible little houses with tiny rooms (usually no hallway from the front door either - a retrograde step going back to the worst quality 2 up 1 down terracced housing of the turn of the 19th/20th centuries - no dining room either - eg bedrooms 6ft by 7 ft) sold by profit-maximinsing large-scale builders. Hence loss of the standards was a very bad thing.

I thought that it was the 1980s removal of the requirement for private builders to follow Parker Morris Standards that lead directly to the bad quality house described above, but the article seems to suggest that private bulders did not have to follow PM standards anyway. Clarification please?

As these standards affect the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people, I think the article ought to go into more detail please - for example what about room sizes?

I also did not realise that PMS only started in the 1960s, yet 1950s council houses seem to be generously sized. What were the space standards responsible for their building? It seems unlikely that penny pinching local authorities would volunatarily build them to that spec.

Three cheers to English Partnerships for reintroducing PMS+! I hope this becomes extended to private housebuilding also, making a real tangible difference to peoples lives. 80.0.102.40 (talk) 11:59, 23 March 2008 (UTC)